Re: error handling in pecl extensions (was Re:intl/resourcebundle)

Hi! Derick Rethans wrote: > - Nothing internally in PHP throws exceptions by default Hmm... SPL does. The majority of PHP cannot use exceptions as they are too recent, I agree. Newer additions, though, could. > - Constructors should throw exceptions, because there is no other way of > returning error information. Please bear with me, but are you saying exceptions are solely "last resort" if nothing else is available? That would factually eliminate exceptions from the whole engine, reducing it to a php language construct? > We've discussed this before I think—the general idea is that we > definitely do *not* want INI settings that change this sort of behavior > as they remove control over error reporting/handling from the > developers. I acknowledge I'm plainly pro exceptions - and I regularly override PDO's default behaviour. Now, if more and more extension offer such an option, wouldn't it be easier to have a "common" option to define a default? Just as error_reporting, display_errors, track_errors, such a default could go into the server setup/ini. I don't suggest it to be an admin value and each extension or even object could override it for itself. Regards HPO